On a bright sunny day I decided to head over to D'ough Espresso at Bondi Junction Westfield. They serve fantastic cakes and the coffee is usually of a great standard, while the Harbour Room food court offers fantastic views to the city. It was down to the choice between a citrus tart and a cookies and cream cheese cake, and the winner was the cheese cake as we could have citrus tart almost everywhere.
The slice of cookies and cream cheese cake came and we were surprised to find 50% base (chocolate sponge) and 50% cheesecake, and we thought if we noticed that we wouldn't have ordered it! So we took a closer look at the slice and found something disappointing.
The cheesecake was made in a way that the outside of the cake was coated with a very thin layer of the cheesecake to cover up the bulk of the base, so it appears from the outside that there is 80% cheese and 20% base. The thin layer was very obviously there to deceive the customer.
We were exceedingly disappointed with that and I have decided now (sadly) to boycott D'ough. I know they did not bake the cake on the premises but it was just such a shameless way to deceive customers who were craving something luscious and decadent.
I will lift the boycott if/when the problem is resolved. Until then, I guess I will return to Laurent Boulangerie, or maybe visit Sweet Belem for my sugar fix......
PS
After the disappointment as mentioned above, I emailed the manager to express my experience and asked that something be done about it. Since then I had a few subsequent visits to spy on their progress. On last visit I was pleased (not delighted) that the veneer on the cookies and cream cheese cake had gone, and also they altered the name of the cake to cookies and cream on sponge cake (or something like that). I have then sent an email acknowledging their progress, thus my mini-boycott is now lifted. Not delighted that the cake is still only half-filled with the cookies and cream cheese but at least they're not being deceptive.....
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